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Originally Posted by Ama  Declan hummed as a response and smiled. It was good that she was bigger because that meant she was independent...which was entirely the whole issue at hand. Still, it was his personal problem and he felt bad enough about dragging a stranger into it.
"Some...one, yes," he said hesitantly as he bent over to brush off some twigs off his shoe. Keeping his eyes on the ground was easier for moments like this. "She's supposed to teach me something." Declan was still figuring that one out. Charlotte's voice was still fuzzy. "Yeah, I know." Detention didn't scare him but it would be harder to do what he did if he had eyes on him constantly. "It's just hard. She's not something I can keep in a glass box."
A bargain was a bargain after all. He might be selfish and unscrupulous at times but he was a young man of his word.
"I don't have any crickets. We'll have to hunt those. She prefers them alive." She couldn't help but look at him curiously. He was a curious one. His hesitation had her very interested in what the entire story was, but it was probably rude to ask. Though his next words make her have to ask. "Teach you something?" What could a spider really be teaching someone? She thought about this quietly for a few moments. Did somehow she talk? Could he speak spider? That would be an interesting thought, but hey people had been able to speak to snakes.
Yeah, she understood he couldn't just keep her in a box, but still. This was a pet that shouldn't be here. Nat wasn't sure if it really matters all that much, though. It was just a spider, how bad could it be.
...and there it was. She was now going to be a cricket hunting duty, wasn't she? She looked at him for a moment and then at the grass. "So do we get on our hands and knees to find them or...?
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